Happy Birthday, Lovey-Bear!

Maybe I am completely pathetic, but I have been really down today. At first I thought I was just tired, then I thought it was the gloomy grey sky… I realized it was because my littlest sweetie is five. I usually embrace and cheer for their milestones, but yesterday my BABY became a five-year-old. She is done with tricycles, moving on to kindergarten in the fall and, yep, decided she can eat raisins again (did you know four year-olds don’t eat raisins? Not according to my daughter!) She is so sweet and full of joy, giving love and hugs freely. I love you honey!

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Above is the picture of her strawberry teddy bear cake. I smashed up some frozen, then thawed strawberries, put them in a strainer and collected the juice in a bowl. I used the strawberry juice in place of the liquid in my vanilla gluten free cake. The strawberry flavor was pretty subtle, but my daughter liked it. I am not too fond of strawberry flavored cake, but it was pretty good. I would rather have a big ol’ mound of berries piled up on my cake. I think if you wanted more strawberry intensity, I could have taken some freeze dried strawberries, pulverized them into a powder and added them into the batter, but my daughter didn’t want any “flecks” in her cake.

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